Raiders NFL Draft Big Board: 20 prospects to look at the first round and beyond
This time every year, someone asks each Director General of the NFL on the editorial staff for the need for the best available player. The answers go on for minutes and sometimes include the word “philosophy”, when in reality the truth is not so deep: it depends only.
The raiders of Las Vegas were desperate for a quarterback until mistaken for Geno Smith A couple of weeks ago. They still have different needs (lineback, cornerback, running back, receiver and even offensive line) and can really take the best player available when drawing up next month.
We have made some adjustments from ours First Raiders Big Board of prospective projects. The Quarterback Cam Ward and Edge Rusher Abdul Carter have been swept away: they are going in the first two or three choices and does not make much sense that the raiders pay the price to climb from n. 6 to get them. And we added some guys from the second and third rounds at the bottom of our top 20.
(Cues Drum Roll and turns the dry table around …)
1. Travis Hunter, CB/WR, Colorado
Hunter would have checked two boxes and would give raiders a little star power, but it is difficult to imagine a scenario in which Hunter falls to n. 6 or where the new England Patriots or Jacksonville Jaguars want to exchange nn. 4 and 5 points rather than taking it alone. After all, there are not many winners of Heisman trophies available with explosiveness, body control, big hands and elusiveness after capture (or interception).
2. Mason Graham, DT, Michigan
As we have outlined in ours Last draft Writer MockIn our opinion, there are six level 1 prospects (and many level 2) and Graham is one of these. We like the comparison of Christian Wilkins’ players and raiders would have two guys inside (one who is Wilkins) with impressive power, financial leverage and balance that can reach the quarterback and play against the race. With Adam Butler also inside and Maxx Crosby, Malcolm Koonce and Tyree Wilson outside, the Raiders would have really emulated the winning use of the Philadelphia Eagles Trophy of a deep defensive line.
3. Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State
Many are deriding Jeanty to the Raiders at n. 6, and it is easy to fall in love with his ribbon. He has a great vision, bounces on the attackers and can go far, he also has good hands. Think of a faster Drew Maurice Jones, which is quite high praise in our book. However, we still think that this is such a deep class of backrests that the raiders are better served pending and drafting an appetizer for the first day in the second or third round.
4. MEBBO, OT, Missouri
The last of our level 1 studs, the 6 feet and 4 sto -in -332 pounds, has hands, feet, technique and power to start for the raiders in opening the season on the right or guard. He is still growing in his frame and we adore the way his blocks ends.
Armand Missouri Profiles as an appetizer of day 1 on the offensive line. (Images Eric Canha / Image)
5. Jalon Walker, LB, Georgia
Some might say that Walker is 6-feet-1, 243 pounds, but let’s say that Walker can play on the edge or outside the ball at the lineback and give a tone for a defense with his speed of change of direction and game skills. People in Georgia also spoke of his leadership.
6. Shedeur Sanders, QB, Colorado
We do not see the logic of trading and the extension of Geno Smith enough and then draw up a quarterback in the first round, but if Sanders is Tom Brady’s boyfriend, then he is Brady’s boyfriend. We are about to find out if it is. Sanders had a great season despite the fact that he had no elite features, and then the teams did not feel they had interviewed well at the NFL Scouting Combine, that his father deion contested. But it is the second best quarterback clearly in this draft and will go everywhere from n. 2 to 21.
7. Will Johnson, CB, Michigan
Here is a 6 feet cornerback with good printing coverage skills and a nice fluidity and smoothness in his game. Pete Carroll is literally jumping up and down. Two numbers: there is a model of injury, while he lost the games last year with Turf Toe and then marked his recent day as a professional with an optimized knee tendon. His tape was not exceptional as you would like, with poor recovery and recovery problems with a deep ball that sometimes presented themselves.
8. Will Campbell, OT, LSU
There could be a rise to the left, since Campbell is an elite running blocker and is still developing, but the shorter weapons and the average lateral speed may have more suitable as a 10 -year placcage. And there is nothing wrong with this.
9. Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Arizona
The 6 feet-4 McMillan is a difficult evaluation, as it is the best receiver in this class like this, but it doesn’t have many elite features. He had many peak catches in evidence in Arizona, but the detractors say it is because he could not create separation due to the lack of high -end speeds and improvisations in his routes.
10. Jihad Campbell, LB, Alabama
He moved to Linebacker because Crimson Tide had Will Anderson Jr. and Dallas Turner at the limit and covered a lot of games on the ground. It can still take sides at the limit and obtain the quarterback and its passage skills of the passage have improved every year. The coaches also spoke of his leadership.
11. Malaki Starks, S, Georgia
Starks was unable to follow a prolific 2023 season, but he had a fantastic week at Cava. The teams love the hips, feet, intelligence and in particular its ability to help them immediately safe or crack.
12. Discussion, WR, Ohio State
Nobody will know all the first 50 prospects Buckeyes and the offensive coordinator of New Raiders Chip Kelly, and it is sure to suppose that he had a lot of fun on his tooth receiver with strong late hands.
13. Luther burden III, WR, Missouri
Another slot receiver that is faster than Egbuka but not so shiny, Burdenly showed his post-race skill in Mizzou and has passed some rough quarterback. His running path could use some nail polish, but it’s an exciting perspective if you only use a little imagination.
14. Treveyon Henderson, RB, Ohio State
We are higher on Henderson than most. It is our n. 3 that runs behind Jeanty and Omarion Hampton and we would certainly take it at n. 37 AND He is very proud of the blockage of his passage.
Treveyon Henderson of Ohio State would have been very familiar with the offensive coordinator of Raiders Chip Kelly. (Mark J. Rebilas / Image Images)
15. Azareye’h Thomas, CB, Florida State
It could have gone to the 37th choice, but maybe not. A large physical corner with long arms that breaks well on the routes, Thomas does not have a great speed and needs some work on its plate. But it is the type of player with whom Carroll has made miracles in the past.
16. Josh Simmons, Ot, Ohio State
Raiders has left the Kolton Miller equipment is entering the last year of its extension of the $ 54 million contract and Simmons is a possibility of intriguing and good value replacement. Simmons is very athletic and talented and was experiencing a great season before tearing one knee. He is in advance on the times of his healing.
17. Josh Conerly Jr., Ot, Oregon
Conerly played the equipment on the left for the ducks and gets bonuses for Stonewalling Abdul Carter in the game of the Big Ten title moves well but needs to become stronger and work on the anchor. Conerly projects like a long -term appetizer on the right.
18. Marcus Mbow, OT/G, Purdue
The 6 -foot and 4 mbow, 303 pounds, is more a uphill choice. Probably the guard equipment will probably move from the right, but it is an elite athlete who, once he puts a little weight, could be an excellent appetizer in both points.
19. Isaiah Bond, WR, Texas
Another draft of Cotta. Bond could not deliver after saying that he would beat the 40 yard dash record, but he was still very fast (4.39) and people sleeping on his tree, hands and ability to play out or in the crack. The Texas just forgot about him sometimes and the raiders should not in the third round.
20. (Tie) Jalen Milroe, QB, Alabama; Will Howard, to taste, Ohio State; Tyler Shaugh, QB, Louisville
As Carroll reminded us, he and Seahawk signed the QB Matt Flynn in 2012, just before drawing up the future appetizer Russell Wilson in the third round. (The future has just occurred before anyone else.) So, after having mistaken for Smith, the raiders are ready to draw up a quarterback in the third or fourth round.
Milroe is a project that launches the ball, but it is special to run with it and can be implemented immediately in the game plans. Howard won a national championship with Kelly in the state of Ohio and has dimensions, experience and tenacity. A quick release and a force of the arm? Not so much. Kelly may have decided that he has already torn all the juice from Howard. Shook turns 26 in September and has three university titles: our favorite statistics. He has a live arm and sees the field well – which is why Oregon, Texas Tech and Louisville all wanted it – but he also had some injuries and needs to improve when the pocket collapses, which makes it an intriguing round 4 proposal.
(Best photos of Mason Graham and Ashton Jeanty: Gregory Shamus and Loren Orr / Getty Images)
